Topic sentence

This is the main idea that you want to make about the topic. It should state in one sentence what your paragraph is going to be about.


Restrictions on public access to information should be limited to a certain extent.
Elaboration

Write one or two sentences explaining your topic sentence.


Publicized, common information among people is essential because it allows the society to improve and increases the capacity of understanding in people. However, it is inevitably true that unrestrained information may stimulate hate, promote violence, spread false information, offend an individual's rights, or to abuse one's security.
Examples/Evidence

Provide at least two pieces of specific evidence that support your topic sentence.

Explanation/Analysis

This is a crucial part of the paragraph which requires some thought. Here, you need to explain how the evidence/examples you provided support your main idea in the topic sentence. This should be 2-4 sentences in length.

Link sentence

This sentence summarizes your paragraph and links back to the main idea in the topic sentence. When writing an essay, the role of the this sentence is to link the paragraph back to your thesis.